Best CLIs for Utilities

Secure file transfer CLI for sending files, folders, and text between computers over public or self-hosted relays.

CLI for showing progress, throughput, and ETA for already-running copy, archive, compression, and checksum commands.

Terminal weather CLI for current conditions and multi-day forecasts from pluggable weather providers.

Regex generation CLI that turns sample strings into a regular expression, with flags for anchors, character classes, and repetition handling.

Local HTTP file server CLI for sharing, browsing, uploading, and downloading files and directories.

Command-line translator for text, files, and web pages using Google, Bing, Yandex, or Apertium backends.

Encrypted file-sharing CLI for uploading, downloading, and managing expiring shares on Send-compatible hosts.

Color manipulation CLI for converting formats, generating palettes, and styling terminal output.

Terminal clipboard manager for copying, pasting, searching, and syncing text, files, and raw data across named and system clipboards.

Stripe CLI

Stripe

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Official Stripe CLI for webhook testing, API requests, request logs, and local integration workflows.

imsg

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macOS Messages CLI for listing chats, reading history, watching new messages, and sending iMessage or SMS.

wacli

607

WhatsApp CLI for syncing chats locally, searching message history, sending messages, and managing contacts or groups.

ElevenLabs text-to-speech CLI for speaking text, browsing voices, and saving audio from the terminal.

Official Twilio CLI for Twilio API operations, account profiles, phone numbers, and plugins.

goplaces

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Google Places and Routes CLI for place search, autocomplete, details, photos, route search, and directions with JSON output.

Pipeline utility for showing transfer progress, throttling throughput, and watching data movement through pipes or files.

remindctl

140

macOS Apple Reminders CLI for listing lists, filtering tasks, and creating, editing, completing, or deleting reminders.

Official Slack CLI for creating, deploying, and managing Slack platform apps, triggers, environments, and datastores.

sonoscli

100

Sonos speaker control CLI for discovery, playback, grouping, queue management, favorites, scenes, and Spotify handoff.

Food delivery CLI for checking Foodora and Deliveroo order status and history, with Foodora reorder support.

Unofficial Eight Sleep CLI for pod control, schedules, alarms, sleep metrics, and device data.

OpenSea CLI for querying NFT collections, NFTs, listings, offers, events, accounts, tokens, and swap quotes.